Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

Bats play a key role in maintaining the health of forest ecosystems as pollinators, seed dispersers and insect pest ...

A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year is nearly as important to the world’s vegetation as how ...

Climate Change has profoundly impacted the carbon cycle, particularly in terrestrial ecosystems, which play a critical role in sequestering atmospheric carbon. With rising global temperatures, changes ...

A global study led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Bologna analyzed 1.7 million datasets ...

Invasive species are prolific. For example, many invasive plants produce berries, which some birds eat. The birds then spread ...

Nearly 40% of global grasslands are degraded, and their restoration and protection is essential, says WWF’s Leonie Meier.

World Soil Day is an international event dedicated to raising awareness about the critical importance of healthy soils for ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

Naturally occurring meadows of eelgrass—the most common type of seagrass found along the East Coast of the United States—are ...

An underwater gardening experiment along the East Coast aims to restore a type of seagrass called eelgrass, at risk of ...